Friday, May 15

Our Three Ten Year Old Children

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We have three cats that to us (my wife and I) are like children.  We got them all within months of each other about 10 years ago and all three of them are different.

Our first acquisition was a yellow male cat that we named Chazy who was spoiled as a young kitten until we had to take him to Kentucky to befriend our second cat, a Siamese male named Piper who was mistreated when young and hid under the bed for 6 months only coming out at night...    Chazy stayed under the bed with him until Piper felt comfortable enough to come out during the day when I was there.

Our third cat was picked up from a Cat Rescue Mission who had been abandoned so early in his life that he had to be bottle fed by the main handler at the Mission.  We had to sign a document agreeing to raise the yellow male cat according to a list of logical rules that we would have adhered to anyway.  We named him Tippy.

Chazy
Piper
Tippy

Even after living with us for 10 years, Piper is still skeptical if we do anything that breaks our routine and does not liked being picked up by me when anyone else is around; but, if I am alone with him, I can pick him up and turn him upside down in my arms and rub his belly as her purrs.
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Our cats sleep with us in bed at night if they want to or sleep on the couch or on another bed in one of our spare rooms.  Our cats have a swinging door that they can go through to get to our screen in porch and there is another swinging door in the basement that gives them access to an outside fenced in area that we had built especially for them.  There are seats in two corners and there are walkways all around the perimeter of the enclosure and underneath a bushy vine crawling on a metal gazebo trellis that we put in the center of the enclosure for the vine with two plastic chairs and pillows for the cats to sleep on as well.

Today, I was out in the cat enclosure replacing the corner seats with new wood and fixing the steps leading up to the walk around area with new wood as well.  I wanted to make these new items as secure as I could so that they will last another 10 years.

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